Chapter 1024: Fierce Battle with Su Qingtao

Chapter 1024: Chapter 1024: Fierce Battle with Su Qingtao

The Dragon Scale Fairy Talisman successfully halted the operation of the big array. Su Qingtao’s face showed not a trace of joy but instead a pained expression.

Although the golden nature of the eighth-order True Dragon’s shed scales is immortal and hard to destroy, the talisman drawn on them does undergo wear, particularly when used to counter such formations as strong enough to obliterate True Immortals. The wear is significant and startling.

It’s estimated that after this use, the talisman’s power will be completely exhausted. To continue harnessing the full might of this eighth-order Dragon Scale, the talisman would have to be redrawn!

And creating an immortal talisman at this level is incredibly difficult.

On one hand, it requires gathering materials compatible with dragon scales to prepare spiritual ink.

Most of them are seventh-order spiritual items, and among them, more than ten kinds of seventh-order True Dragon blood are needed. This alone, if not for the blessing from her master, would take Su Qingtao alone tens of thousands of years to gather.

On the other hand, an eighth-order Talisman Maker is needed.

Su Qingtao herself is not proficient in the Talisman Path. Even though a long time might allow her to improve her expertise, she remains only a fifth-order Talisman Maker.

To have someone make this Dragon Scale Talisman for her, she even broke into a sect of the Talisman Path in the Cangwu Continent and forcibly captured a patriarch Ghost Immortal and a seventh-order Talisman Maker to make the talisman!

This Ghost Immortal made the immortal talisman but died under the Three Disasters and Six Tribulations because the primal source of True Immortal was too depleted. Even with her intervention, his life couldn’t be saved, leading to the latter decline of that sect, leaving her unable to repeat such actions.

Now being hunted by a seventh-order True Dragon, how could she have the time to gather spiritual materials or seek a seventh-order Talisman Maker? She wished not to use the Dragon Scale Fairy Talisman unless absolutely necessary, saving it as a life-saving trump card.

However, faced with the terrifying crushing pressure of the Earth Yuan Array, she could only sacrifice this Fairy Talisman in pain!

Upon deploying the talisman, a decisive glint flashed through Su Qingtao’s eyes, her delicate bare feet repeatedly treading on the Controlling Dragon Light Picture, stirring brilliant ripples. Amid the crisp sound of the Bronze Bell, her figure advanced instead of retreating, one hand holding a Heaven-Lifting Jade Pillar, carrying a fearsome force of mountain-breaking sea-stirring, crashing heavily toward Shen Mo.

"This array arranged by immortal mountain is of high grade and its power isn’t ordinary. If I can beat this brat to death, seize the array’s control rights, I will have a relatively safe place to stand!" Su Qingtao thought silently to herself.

This battle would certainly leave the Dragon Scale Fairy Talisman greatly depleted, unable to protect her life from the pursuit of the True Dragon Clan.

However, if she could kill Shen Mo and claim this big array for herself, she could use the power of the formation to resist the siege of the dragon clan experts.

Maybe she could even kill a few seventh-order True Dragons for cultivation resources, further advancing her cultivation. If she smoothly ascended to the Earth Immortal Realm, she could be more handy against the dragon clan’s pursuit in the future.

Thinking of this, Su Qingtao struck with more ferocity, yet her face displayed an incomparably bright smile: "Fellow daoist cost me a life-saving trump card, let this big array make up for it then!"

In her view, although Shen Mo controls an unparalleled big array and possesses an artifact capable of banning magical abilities, he is ultimately just a mortal cultivator of the Formless Realm, his strength doesn’t count as powerful. Now with the big array being halted by the Dragon Scale Fairy Talisman, she can seize the time to kill Shen Mo and take this big array!

"It’s not night yet, why is Fellow Daoist Su already dreaming?" Shen Mo responded with a smile.

His demeanor was relaxed and composed, yet he dared not harbor any negligence facing Su Qingtao’s fierce aggression at the peak of the Human Immortal.

Simultaneously as Su Qingtao struck, he equipped Danger Perception and Indestructible Body, summoned a series of powerful magic treasures, and pushed his Immortal Dao Cultivation to the extreme...

Thousand Laws Robe silently blossomed with Prohibition Lotus, strange immortal charm rippling. Su Qingtao’s musical attack from shaking the Bronze Bell was weakened by seventy to eighty percent; the leftover magical power was dissipated by Shen Mo’s Crystal Brahma Flame and Soul Magic and did not trouble him in the least.

Moreover, the No Magic Zone enveloped Su Qingtao, while deciphering unfamiliar methods and spawning new Karma Lotus, it also inhibited the magical abilities confined by the Karma Lotus!

Just that many of Su Qingtao’s magical abilities seemed to be of very high grade and deep achievement, so the Karma Lotus developed at a slower pace, unable to directly "transform" her into a mortal as with lower or equal-tiered cultivators.

Actually, this is normal. The magical abilities on figures of True Immortal usually aren’t low in grade, plus having ample time to deepen their study of spells, their cultivation method achievement can also be exalted to an astounding degree. Thus, the deciphering by the Thousand Laws Robe becomes slower.

Previously, when Shen Mo battled Jiuli Dark Lord and Yuan Monarch Dharma Body, the Thousand Laws Karma Lotus Robe’s deciphering of their magical abilities to spawn Karma Lotus was under particular circumstances.

The former didn’t display true power initially, merely wanting to harshly punish Shen Mo, so the means employed were rather ordinary, later when truly infuriated, was stopped by Xuanyuan Tongzhen and Jade Spring Fairy; the latter was suppressed and sealed by the Stars Circulation Array, unable to exhibit even half of its Immortal Dao Cultivation!

Hence, Su Qingtao under the No Magic Zone of the Thousand Laws Karma Lotus Robe seemed like a nonchalant person, still able to display exceedingly dreadful combat strength.

Especially the two Heaven-Lifting Jade Pillars she wielded, mirroring Shen Mo’s Mountain Pearl, without too many immortal magic effects attached, most power lies upon the path of "brute force";

Only seeing beneath the pillars, an endless nature’s spiritual energy compressed to the extreme, transformed into a peculiar flame that radiates bizarre dreamlike colors, even thick spatial barriers couldn’t withstand this appalling power, threads of minute fissures spreading along the pillar’s trajectory!

Clang!

Clang clang...

Shen Mo repeatedly wielded the Taiyi Sword, releasing several grand and resplendent Sword Qi of the Universe.

Amidst the soul-shocking fluctuations, the two Heaven-Lifting Jade Pillars were slashed back, even forcing Su Qingtao to retreat several thousand miles!

However, Shen Mo didn’t feel well either.

Under the traction of Qi, his Daoist body and mind were shaken, the skin crystalline as jade akin to cracked porcelain showing strands of texture, a trace of primal Essence and Qi seeped out from the crack, emanating strands of divine light.

If it weren’t for his robust vitality, having enhanced his internal organs through the cultivation of South Hua Treasure Body Traversing Difficulty Immortal Scripture, and equipped Indestructible Body, perhaps his Dao Body would be in worse shape!

The Taiyi Sword that faced the pillar’s barrage directly emitted a mournful cry, not that it couldn’t withstand such aggression, but with a few more times its spirituality would be damaged, ultimately affecting its ascension to a celestial artifact.

Immediately, numerous cultivation methods on Shen Mo started operating, the damaged Dao Body beginning to recover at a visible speed.

Mental motion slightly, he retracted Taiyi Sword into the Dantian for nurturing, replacing it with seven Beidou Dao Swords each with distinct aura, simultaneously the Dharma Body’s contour phantom materialized to envelop him.

"Here we go again!"

As soon as the words fell, Shen Mo arranged The Big Dipper Array, charging at Su Qingtao as a majestic streak of light.